On this page you'll find 9 example sentences with Strikebreakers. Discover the meaning, how to use the word correctly in a sentence.
Strikebreakers meaning
plural of strikebreaker
Using Strikebreakers
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of strikebreaker
- In the example corpus, strikebreakers often appears in combinations such as: as strikebreakers, black strikebreakers, strikebreakers in.
Context around Strikebreakers
- Average sentence length in these examples: 20.9 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 2 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 9 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Strikebreakers
- In this selection, "strikebreakers" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 20.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, black, violent and chase stand out and add context to how "strikebreakers" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include films the strikebreakers are mistreated and hired as strikebreakers and ethnic. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "strikebreakers" sits close to words such as aakash, aanholt and aardwolf, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with strikebreakers
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The first few hundred workers were brought to southeast Iowa as strikebreakers, Chase wrote. (14 words)
In 1940 more black strikebreakers were brought in to work in the Rath meat plant. (15 words)
Frick brought in thousands of strikebreakers to work the steel mills and Pinkerton agents to safeguard them. (17 words)
London’s words ring with a harsh truth, and we can illustrate his point by looking at the discomforting status of Black strikebreakers in American labor history. (27 words)
After Pinkerton agents killed at least seven strikers during the Homestead Strike that July, Kem supported a resolution to investigate the corporate use of violent strikebreakers. (26 words)
In both films, the strikebreakers are mistreated when the strike ends, in the first film by lower wages and in the second by abrupt dismissals. (25 words)
Example sentences (9)
After Pinkerton agents killed at least seven strikers during the Homestead Strike that July, Kem supported a resolution to investigate the corporate use of violent strikebreakers.
London’s words ring with a harsh truth, and we can illustrate his point by looking at the discomforting status of Black strikebreakers in American labor history.
In both films, the strikebreakers are mistreated when the strike ends, in the first film by lower wages and in the second by abrupt dismissals.
The first few hundred workers were brought to southeast Iowa as strikebreakers, Chase wrote.
Adding fuel to the fire the railroad companies began hiring replacement workers (that is, strikebreakers ), which only increased hostilities.
Frick brought in thousands of strikebreakers to work the steel mills and Pinkerton agents to safeguard them.
In 1940 more black strikebreakers were brought in to work in the Rath meat plant.
The city's labor and management clashed in bitter strikes, racial tension escalated as blacks were hired as strikebreakers, and ethnic strife broke out.
The remaining Joads work as strikebreakers in a peach orchard, where Casy is involved in a strike that eventually turns violent.
Common combinations with strikebreakers
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- as strikebreakers 3×
- black strikebreakers 2×
- strikebreakers in 2×